In the state legislature Santee is located in the 36th Senate District, represented by Republican Joel Anderson, and in the 77th Assembly District, represented by Republican Brian Jones, a former Santee Councilmember.

In other results Republican Sam Reed received 74. 6 % of the county's vote in his run for re-election as Washington Secretary of State ; Republican Allan Martin received 67. 25 % of the vote for state treasurer ; and Republican Rob McKenna received 76. 28 % in his re-election run for Attorney general.

* Rob Wittman, United States Congressman ( VA-1, Republican )

* Rob Portman, Republican U. S. Senator for Ohio

* State Senator Rob Wonderling, Republican, 24th district

* Rob Sentner, Republican

* Rob Bishop-A Republican representative in the United States House of Representatives.

Brolin would later play Governor Rob Ritchie, a fictional Republican candidate for the Presidency in The West Wing, while his son Josh would play the 43rd President George W. Bush in the 2008 Oliver Stone film W.

After the defeats of Nancy Johnson and Rob Simmons, Shays was the only Republican congressman from Connecticut, and the only Republican congressman from all of New England.

Dicks qualified for the general election via the blanket primary and won the general election with 74 % of the vote against Republican nominee Rob Reynolds.

The FairTax legislation has been introduced in the House by Georgia Republicans John Linder ( 1999 – 2010 ) and Rob Woodall ( 2011 ), while being introduced in the Senate by Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss.

Speakers have included: Speaker of the House John Boehner, Representatives Kevin Brady and Greg Walden, Senators Rob Portman and John McCain, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.

In 1980, she faced the Republican Rob Couhig, an attorney-businessman who raised some $ 200, 000 for the race, a large amount at that time for a challenger in a difficult district.

Following an unsuccessful run in the adjacent Second District in 1993, McEwen was largely absent from the Ohio political scene for a decade, until in 2005 he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Congress in the Second District special election to replace Rob Portman, who beat him in 1993, and finished second to the winner in the general election, Jean Schmidt.

In the Republican primary on March 16, McEwen faced trade lawyer Rob Portman, who had worked in the White House under President George H. W. Bush ; real estate developer Jay Buchert, the president of the National Association of Home Builders ; and several lesser known candidates: real estate appraiser Garland Eugene Crawford of Loveland ; pro-life activist Ken Callis of the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming ; Robert W. Dorsey, a professor at the University of Cincinnati and township trustee in Hamilton County's Anderson Township ; and Ku Klux Klan leader Van Darrell Loman of Cheviot.

On that show, which premiered in 2006, Robert McCallister is played by Rob Lowe and is a U. S. Senator ( Republican ) with an ex-wife named Courtney and a son named Jack.

DeWine was a candidate in the June 14, 2005 Republican primary for the Ohio's 2nd congressional district special election to the U. S. House of Representatives seat vacated by Rob Portman, who resigned to become U. S. Trade Representative.

Robert Marion " Rob " McKenna ( born October 1, 1962 ) is the Republican Attorney General of Washington and was elected in November 2004 for a term beginning in January 2005.

* In 1998, a bipartisan effort ( led by Republican Senator Bill Ratliff and Democratic Representative Rob Junell ) produced a rewritten constitution, with the help of students from Angelo State University ( Junell's district included the San Angelo area ).

He strengthened the Party by getting Republican officials elected, significantly Rob McKenna, the first Republican State Attorney General in 13 years.

Brinkman was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress to replace Rob Portman in the Second District of Ohio in the special primary held June 14, 2005, but finished third with one-fifth the vote, losing to Jean Schmidt who ultimately won the seat.

However, Walton lost in the general election in a landslide 62 % to 35 %) to the Republican candidate, William B. Pine.

He elected as a Republican to the 37th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles W. Walton and served from December 1, 1862, to March 3, 1863, and was not a candidate for renomination in 1862.

Of those donations, 86 % were to Republican candidates and 14 % were to Arvest Bank ( owned by the Walton family ) and Retail Leaders PACs.

In 1960, Ambrose Lindhorst ( the head of the Hamilton County Republican Party ), Walton Bachrach ( mayor of Cincinnati ), and Republican operative George Eyrich persuaded Aronoff to run for a seat in the Ohio General Assembly.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

The incumbent, Republican John Paul Hammerschmidt, defeated Clinton in the general election by a 52 % to 48 % margin.

Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.

He defeated four Republican candidates for governor: Lowe ( 1978 ), White ( 1982 and 1986 ), and businessmen Woody Freeman of Jonesboro, ( 1984 ) and Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock ( 1990 ).

He defeated William Randolph Hearst in the 1906 election to gain the position, and he was the only Republican statewide candidate to win office.

He defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson in a landslide, with an electoral margin of 442 to 89, marking the first Republican return to the White House in 20 years.

With the bouncy popular song " Happy Days Are Here Again " as his campaign theme, FDR defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in November 1932, at the depth of the Great Depression.

Lynch defeated Republican challenger Joseph Kenney, a State Senator and U. S. Marine, 70 % to 28 %, with 2 % of the vote won by the Libertarian candidate.

In the Republican primary, Ashcroft defeated Marc Perkel.

Lowden was defeated, but would later serve two terms in the office and be a major contender for the 1920 Republican presidential nomination.

Roosevelt was a powerful campaign asset for the Republican ticket, which defeated William Jennings Bryan in a landslide based on restoration of prosperity at home and a successful war and new prestige abroad.

The district was a Republican stronghold, and he was defeated.

Ultimately he endorsed the Democratic nominees, James M. Cox as president and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

Wilson soundly defeated Lewis in the general election by a margin of more than 49, 000 votes, although Republican William Howard Taft had carried New Jersey in the 1908 presidential election by more than 80, 000 votes.

In the contest for the Republican nomination, President William Howard Taft defeated former president Theodore Roosevelt, who then ran as a Bull Moose Party candidate, which assisted in Wilson's success in the electoral college.

In 1928 he ran for the United States Senate and was defeated by Republican Otis F. Glenn, receiving 46 % of the vote.

Washington defeated former mayor Jane Byrne in the February 24, 1987, Democratic mayoral primary by 7. 2 %, 53. 5 % to 46. 3 %, and in the April 7, 1987, mayoral general election defeated Vrdolyak ( Illinois Solidarity Party ) by 11. 8 %, 53. 8 % to 42. 8 %, with Northwestern University business professor Donald Haider ( Republican ) getting 4. 3 %, to win reelection to a second term as mayor.

The United States presidential election held on November 3, 1896, climaxed an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in one of the most dramatic and complex races in American history.

Having badly lost the 1904 election with a conservative candidate, the Democratic Party turned to two-time nominee William Jennings Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley.

In 1997, Senators McCain and Feingold sought to eliminate soft money and TV advertising expenditures but the legislation was defeated by a Republican filibuster.

Virtually every prediction ( with or without public opinion polls ) indicated that incumbent President Harry S. Truman would be defeated by Republican Thomas E. Dewey.

Humphrey won the nomination, defeated Republican Congressman Clark MacGregor, and returned to the U. S. Senate on January 3, 1971.

The compromises contained in the agreement caused the civil war in the 26 counties in June 1922 – April 1923, in which the pro-Treaty Provisional Government defeated the anti-Treaty Republican forces.

In 1796 French Republican troops under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy, defeated the papal troops and occupied Ancona and Loreto.